Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Metaphors from nature, sports, and travel are very useful to generate repurposed solutions. While doing business online is one of the biggest money-savers (cuts down on travel and meetings), it can also waste time through indirectness, poor timing, too much detail, or messages sent too quickly without thought or polish.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The middle layers spend their entire days in meetings or on conference calls, traveling to meetings outside the hospital, or negotiating contracts with vendors. To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department. In some larger nonprofit hospitals, there may be six.

Cost 11

Cost System Management Franchising 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Nimbleness and frugality, after all, remain critical to growth, and it''s been interesting to see that even as the economy slowly recovers, plenty of business travelers voluntarily and even eagerly share hotel rooms with colleagues. Companies need to carefully calibrate their travel policies according to their organization''s culture.

Hotels 9

Hotels Conference Policies Travel 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Dina Bakst, founder of New York–based A Better Balance , is an advocate of making schedules predictable and avoiding telling employees at the last minute that they need to stay late, come in early, or travel on short notice. They can offer guidance on the costs of child care, budgeting for expenses, and FSAs, among other topics.

Stress 13

Stress Company Banking Cost 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

A strong organizer juggles the myriad demands and endless details of their dual role effectively with task lists on their phone; the creative thinker comes up with an unusual but happy child care arrangement that accommodates their frequent last-minute business travel.

Stress 15

Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Perhaps it's easier to start by discussing the pathologies of a dysfunctional Chief of Human Resources Officer (CHRO). If your CHRO travels only to accompany you, or keeps in touch with staff primarily through email or one-way communication such as videocasts, you've got a problem. How do you know you have the right person?

Metrics 14

Metrics Human Resources Attrition CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Although trendy, open offices in renovated warehouses can be a nightmare when it comes to sound traveling across the space. Those with the budgets to get more creative can consider drop ceilings that soak up sound and incorporate shapes, colors, and designs. How can you as an employee help solve this problem?

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Environment Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Put key resources in place ahead of when you need them, and you’ll avoid undue emergency. Find — and budget in — the resources. But to the practical and financial extent possible, try to find the extra resources that will help sustain your family and performance when your child is ill.

How To 8

How To Short-term Wireless Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Masala has been at Kuoni, a leading travel services company, since 2007, and is known for frequently shaking things up. He was especially sensitive to the human side of how this would get approved and implemented internally. A Different Approach. This may seem counterintuitive in a larger organization.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2012

But although it is true that all markets have certain nuances, the central purpose of your resume — to "sell" you and your skills to the role in question — does not change as it travels across cultures. Examples include: Sales : Did you exceed your monthly / annual sales budget? If so, by what $ value or %?

Travel 14

Travel Letter Advertising Budgeting 14

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Business planning (analysis, forecasting, budgeting…). Human Resource Management : this is the management of the people you have hired. Travel management (sometimes assigned to accounting rather than HRM). Human Resource Management. Capital raising strategies. Risk assessment. Corporate Taxation.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40